It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.

I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

I had difficulty working for other people.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

Love, peace and soul.

MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.

My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.

People who dance well, dress well, are well groomed and know how to behave seem to know others who dance, dress and behave well.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.

The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Who's more important than Diana Ross?

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.